dent
n. 凹痕; 削减,削弱
v. 使凹陷; 削减; 挫伤
If you dent the surface of something, you make a hollow area in it by hitting or pressing it.
A great chunk of loose kerbing smashed into my left-front wheel, bursting the tyre and denting the rim...
我车子的左前轮撞在一大块松动的路缘石上,导致车胎爆裂、轮辋凹陷。
Its brass feet dented the carpet's thick pile.
其黄铜支脚把厚绒地毯压出了印。
A dent is a hollow in the surface of something which has been caused by hitting or pressing it.
There was a dent in the car which hadn't been there before.
车上出现了一处以前没有的凹痕。
If something dents your ideas or your pride, it makes you realize that your ideas are wrong, or that you are not as good or successful as you thought.
This has not dented the City's enthusiasm for the company.
这并没有减弱伦敦金融界对这个公司的热情。
After a while that sort of thing dents your confidence.
那种事情过上一段时间就会挫伤信心。
If one thing makes a dent in another, it reduces it by a large amount.
The commission had barely begun to make a dent in the problem...
委员会几乎还没有在这个问题上取得任何进展。
I hated to put any dents in his enthusiasm, but I was trying to be realistic.
我不想打击他的热情,只是试图现实一些。
1. an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening);
2. a depression scratched or carved into a surface
3. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
1. make a depression into;
NICK: Surface discontinuity, a depression or dent caused by impact.
刻痕: 表面中断, 由碰撞引起的下陷或凹痕.
So selling Alcon, a highly profitable business, will not make much of a dent.
所以出售爱尔康, 一笔高利润的买卖, 不会导致负面的重大影响.
Similarly, a stronger yuan would do little to dent America's trade deficit.
与此类似的是, 更为强劲的(民币)对削减美国的贸易逆差不会起什么作用.
The embarrassing stories about his past made quite a dent in his reputation.
关于他过去的令人难堪的传说损坏了他的名誉.
Diagnosed with prostate career in 1991, Dent began his journey to death several weeks ago.
1991年邓特经诊断患有前列腺癌,数周后他开始了死亡之旅.